Lessons for SA? Zimbabwe’s land grabs a ‘lose-lose’ situation 16yrs on
Sixteen years on, the very people responsible for Zimbabwe’s land grabs remain unable to produce 80% of the food the country needs.
Sixteen years on, the very people responsible for Zimbabwe’s land grabs remain unable to produce 80% of the food the country needs.
Cathy Buckle says unbelievable things are happening in Zimbabwe with every passing day feeling more and more like 2007 and 2008: the country is literally running out of money again.
President Mugabe’s spokesperson has warned new laws will be brought in to deal with media houses who report on factions within the ruling party.
For 13 years the biggest threat to President Robert Mugabe’s grip on power came from an opposition party that grew out of the country’s labor unions. Now he is facing an even bigger challenge from within his own party.
Joice Mujuru, ousted as Zimbabwe’s vice president in December, said she’s kept silent out of respect for the country’s founding president even after he branded her a witch and accused her of plotting to kill him.
A new twist on the long struggle over land in Zimbabwe is now pitting powerful figures in Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party
President Robert Mugabe began a widely-anticipated reshuffle of his cabinet on Tuesday, sacking a minister and his deputy, state media said
Ninety-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe promoted his wife to the top ranks of his ZANU-PF party on Saturday but delayed filling vacant senior posts, prolonging anxiety over his lack of successor.
Welcoming Joice Mujuru to the vice presidency at a Zanu-PF party congress in 2004, Mugabe suggested she could aim even “higher”. She was once his favourite.
Tough-talking Zimbabwe securocrat Emmerson Mnangagwa — dubbed “Ngwena” or “the crocodile” — is likely emerge from this week on as Robert Mugabe’s vice president and heir apparent.